Sarah Greene

Maxine Carlson

Biography

Sarah Greene is a Tony Award and Olivier Award nominated actress and has won three Irish Film and Television Academy Awards (IFTA) including one for Irish Film Board Rising Star. Perhaps best known for her recurring role as Hecate Poole in the television series “Penny Dreadful,” she joined the cast in the show’s second season as a demonic witch who uses her dark powers to bring about the end of humanity. For the role, she earned an IFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Drama in 2016. Additional television credits include the role of May in the Irish mini-series “Rebellion,” for which she was also nominated as Best Actress in a Lead Role for the 2016 IFTA Awards, and guest roles in the Irish series “Vikings,” “Raw,” “Psych Ward,” “Assets” and “Bachelors Walk Christmas Special.”

In 2015 Greene appeared in a supporting role in the feature film “Burnt,” starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller and Emma Thompson. In 2014 she starred in Stephen Bradley’s independent drama “Noble,” which ran at the Nashville Film Festival and earned a Best Feature Award at Boston Film Festival, an Audience Award at the Dallas Film Festival, a Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and a Best Foreign Film Award at the Newport Beach Festival. Her role as Middle Christina earned her a Best Supporting Actress Award at the 2015 IFTA Awards. Additional Irish film credits include “The Guard,” “Love & Savagery,” “Eden,” “My Brothers” and “Standby.”

Greene’s theatre credits include a starring role as Slippy Helen in “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” a play by Martin McDonagh co-starring Daniel Radcliffe. Greene performed in both the West End and Broadway productions, was nominated for a Tony and Olivier Award in 2014 and won the 2014 Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut. Additional theatre credits in Ireland include “Between Foxrock And A Hard Place,” “Little Gem,” “Phaedra,” “Brian Friel Celebrations,” “The Death of Harry Leon,” “Danti Dan,” “Playboy of the Western World,” “The Year of The Hiker,” “The Empress of India” and the title role in Dublin’s Abbey Theatre’s “Alice in Funderland.”

Currently Greene resides in London, and her birthday is July 24. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @mssarahgreene.